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Conroy can relax as hot air obscures phone bill
Sydney :: Australia | 2 days ago
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The rising temperature over Capital Hill and the scheming, trading and emissions emanating from a Federal Opposition intent on destroying itself has helped obscure what was to be one of the most important parliamentary debates of the year.
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Mobile phone companies, Communications in Australia, Politics, Members of the Australian Senate, Telstra, Stephen Conroy, National Broadband Network, Crossbencher, Foxtel, Solomon Trujillo, Barnaby Joyce
A sacrifice to keep the status quo
Nuuk :: Greenland | 4 days ago
Credibility Vested interests and those instinctively opposed to change have undermined attempts to act on carbon emissions...If you're worried about global warming, it is inadequate, a compromise diluted by more compromises to blunt its impact.
Tags: climate change, trade scheme, emissions trade, vested interests, Australian, Barnaby Joyce, Greenland, Nuuk, Emissions trading, Australian Industry Greenhouse Network, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Garnaut Climate Change Review, Carbon finance, Global warming, Environment
More heat than light in Coalition
Liberal :: KS :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility National Editor Mark Davis examines the implications. The will-o-the-wisp is a mysterious light which flickers at night over bogs, swamps and marshes. At once disturbing and alluring, it is said to recede into the distance when approached and so can...
Tags: Liberal, Malcolm Turnbull, Australian federal election, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Senate, Westminster system, Politics, Social Issues, Barnaby Joyce, John Howard, National Party of Australia leadership election, Coalition, Liberal Party of Australia, National Party of Australia
GroceryChoice project 'went to mud'
Sydney :: Australia | 9 days ago
Credibility The Coalition-dominated Committee has also raised questions about the tender process run by the competition watchdog and recommends the Auditor-General investigate. The website was set up by the Government to allow consumers to compare grocery prices...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Members of the Australian Senate, Barnaby Joyce, Coalition
Chuckles Combet the warm-up comedian
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 10 days ago
Credibility Julia Gillard and right, Greg Combet discovers a warm sense of satisfaction. Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change, is not a natural comedian. He is a solemn, industrious type; his title sounds a little bit butlerish and indeed his quiet...
Tags: Senate, climate change, Indonesia, Jakarta, Members of the Australian Senate, Australian Senate, Sri Lanka, Holocaust denial, Barnaby Joyce, Australian labour movement, Greg Combet, Combet
Waiting in vain for water projects
Melbourne :: Australia | 15 days ago
Credibility Tanner (''Population fear is nonsense'', The Age , 13/11) scoffs at fears of population increase but admits that one major barrier to sustaining a bigger population is the availability of water. But he is confident that ''it could be overcome through...
Tags: Australia, Melbourne, Rowville Victoria, Lindsay Tanner, GROW, Kelvin Thomson, Overpopulation, Environment, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Social Issues, Barnaby Joyce, Joyce, Politics, Surnames, Demography, Victoria, Sydney, Desalination, Population density, Water supply
Turnbull faces colleagues in party room showdown
Canberra :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Mr Turnbull's authority after weeks of internal division on the issue that has damaged his leadership. Mr Turnbull had nothing to say as he entered the party room flanked by Deputy Leader Julie Bishop and emissions trading spokesman Ian Macfarlane. Similarly,...
Tags: climate change, parties room, Ian Macfarlane, emissions trading, Mr Turnbull, spokesman ian, Nationals Senate, Canberra, trading scheme, Barnaby Joyce
Turnbull to get green light on climate
Canberra :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Malcolm Turnbull is set to win party room support on Sunday for negotiations with the Government on the emissions scheme, but it will be only the start of the toughest month of his difficult leadership. Opposition sources say getting the go-ahead for...
Tags: parties room, Barnaby Joyce
MPs' pay rise gets a chilly response
Canberra :: Australia | 2 months ago
Credibility But the public sector union has backed a pay rise for politicians as well as the worst-paid workers, criticising the ''absurd'' situation that means ministers are paid half as much as the people who report to them. The pay rise for federal MPs, the first...
Tags: pay rise, Barnaby Joyce, Kevin Rudd, cent pay, Remuneration Tribunal, prime minister, Australia, Canberra
5pc of voters can name Nationals leader
Sydney :: Australia | 2 months ago
Credibility Nationals leader Posted September 15, 2009 10:00:00 Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce says an opinion poll shows the party needs to "pick up its act" to get voter recognition. A Nielsen poll published in today's Age newspaper shows only 5 per cent...
Tags: Warren Truss, nationals leader, Barnaby Joyce, Australia, Sydney
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